As I'm trying to go through emails of last week when I was on vacation
I get somewhat tired of seeing the same arguments over and over again on
this never-ending thread. Without specifically commenting if e-postage is
doable or has any chance of being adapted, I'd instead like people here to
consider the reasons why e-postage is being proposed, what are the problems
its supposed to solve and then see if there exist any other solutions that
may accomplish the same and possible not have the same likely high
implementation costs as e-postage.
The reasons that I heard e-postage advocates make that they think e-postage
can solve are:
1. To equalize cost of email distribution (the presumption made is that
its cheaper for sender to send email then for recepient to process and
store it).
2. To make cost of sending each piece of commercial advertisement email to
be higher then possible profit that could result from the majority of
spam offers with typical low-response rate. Thus making spammers use
very targetted email lists with low # of complaints from those who
receive their emails.
Please consider if there exist other general problems that e-postage attempts
to solve and post about it as well as thereafter consider if there exist
other solutions that may solve these problems.
Also in these and other discussions about cost of sending emails, you
might want to consider that cost of rejecting email during initial stage
of SMTP transmission is very low (can be considered 0 for practical purposes)
where as cost is quite real for fully SMTP received email that is thereafter
sent through filters, classified as spam, stored for human verification, etc
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net
_______________________________________________
Asrg mailing list
Asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/asrg